@repcasar.bsky.social
Representing the heart of Texas from East Austin to West San Antonio #TX35. Chair of @USProgressives.bsky.social. Labor organizer. Lover of migas and long runs, just not at the same time.
@repcasar.bsky.socialMore than 200,000 Texans are stuck waiting for Medicaid approval. Republicans cut health care for millions of people and buried Texans in paperwork.
@repcasar.bsky.socialA judge ruled Trump's plan to cut FEMA in half was illegal. But it shouldn't take a court order to keep disaster responders on the job. I have a bill to put the fired workers back and restore the flood programs Trump gutted.
@repcasar.bsky.socialThe company that locked people in small cages and called them "calming areas" is opening an ICE detention warehouse in San Antonio. We should be closing these facilities — not building more.
@repcasar.bsky.socialTrump and his sons quietly moved 20 billion crypto tokens into an account that lets them cash out. Corruption, plain and simple.
@repcasar.bsky.social25 kids in one Texas courtroom. 15 with no lawyer. The youngest was 3. One of them, 13-year-old Angel, broke down crying: "I have no one. I have nothing." And it's happening to kids in immigration courts across the country. It's evil.
@repcasar.bsky.socialThis week, the most powerful AI companies on Earth signed a pledge with Trump to regulate themselves.
It's one page. It's voluntary. It has no penalties.
@sanders.senate.gov and I have a bill that is binding, to put a real watchdog on AI. Not a pinky promise.
@repcasar.bsky.socialGood news: Wilber Garces Perez finally had surgery to remove the bullet that was in his back for 11 days. It took far too long, and it's more proof of ICE cruelty. But we kept up the pressure, and Wilber got the care he needed. Speaking up for our neighbors works.
@repcasar.bsky.socialOutrageous. OpenAI has reportedly fired three safety researchers for sharing information with an outside AI safety group. This looks like they're firing whistleblowers. What are they hiding? I'll be sending OpenAI a demand for transparency.
@repcasar.bsky.socialOpenAI's president admits his AI super PAC has become a liability. The pressure is working. Progressives have worked hard to make LTF as toxic as AIPAC. Now one of its biggest donors is backing out. Democrats need to stand with the people and reject AI billionaires' money.
@repcasar.bsky.socialIn Congress, I'm fighting so every worker in America gets water breaks, a decent wage, and paid time off. Because working shouldn't be a death sentence.
@repcasar.bsky.socialBefore I got to Congress, I organized to win water breaks for Austin construction workers. Then Abbott signed a law wiping them out. Now thousands of Texas workers are getting sick in extreme heat.
@repcasar.bsky.socialWe don’t need more ways for corporations to jack up prices, and that includes Big Macs. Surveillance pricing should be illegal across the country. I have a bill to ban it.
@repcasar.bsky.socialTrump is sitting down with AI billionaires today, including Musk, Bezos, Zuckerberg, and Huang, worth a combined $1.7 trillion. None of them are worried about losing their jobs, freedoms, or lives because of AI. Millions of Americans are.
@repcasar.bsky.socialA federal judge just ruled that locking people in hot Texas prisons without AC is unconstitutional. Every unit needs to be cooled by 2029. The state admits 20+ people died from heat in its prisons. Yet it wants to appeal the decision. Texas should stop fighting this, and start saving lives.
@repcasar.bsky.socialRepublicans should haul Sam Altman before Congress to testify today.
OpenAI’s models have now hacked real companies, hacked Australian gov't websites, and attempted to hack federal websites here at home.
In @sanders.senate.gov + my new bill: no frontier AI without a federal agency overseeing it.
@repcasar.bsky.socialThis San Antonio Express-News op-ed is right: corporations mining your personal data and supercharging it with AI to set your price is sinister. It's why I wrote the first federal bill to ban surveillance pricing.
@repcasar.bsky.socialTrump said he’d drain the swamp. Last night he sat Xi Jinping at a dinner table with Elon Musk, Tim Cook, Sam Altman, and other tech billionaires worth a combined $1.13 trillion. Trump’s friends get power and access. Working people get nothing.
@repcasar.bsky.socialI saw Wilber in ICE detention yesterday, in a wheelchair with a bullet still in his body. Here’s what’s next: He needs surgery. And ICE needs to cooperate with the independent investigation.
@repcasar.bsky.socialDHS keeps tweeting at me instead of answering a simple question: How does shooting a DoorDash driver in the back in Austin make anyone safer?
@repcasar.bsky.socialI'm heading to the Pearsall ICE detention facility to check on Wilber Garces Perez, a man who was shot in the back by an ICE agent in Austin on Sunday. He needs a doctor, not deportation. I'll report back on what I find.
